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Engraving of a nighttime fireworks display over a garden pavilion with fountains, obelisks and a crowd of spectators in the f

Fireworks in Meudon

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, 1730

Engraved portrait of an elderly bearded man in a skullcap leaning on a stone balustrade, with Latin inscription below.

Portrait of Wencelaus Coeberger, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Flemish Lucas Vorsterman, 1630

Engraved plate of symmetrical jewelry designs with floral garlands, oval frames, scrollwork and teardrop pendants on cream pa

Jewelry Designs

S.H. Dinglinger, 1750

Etching of a bearded man seated on a bed, hand to his head, surrounded by shadowy grotesque figures in darkness.

A nightmare

François-Nicolas Chifflart, 1850

Engraved print of a standing woman in ornate robes before an obelisk and ruins, framed by rococo scrollwork and flowers.

Octavia Empress to Nero, in escutcheon

Étienne Charpentier, 1750

Lithograph of three decorative friezes with acanthus scrolls, a swan, a heron, putti, a medallion bust and a fruit basket.

Three Friezes and Ornamen

Gottfried Engelmann, 1810

Hand-colored print of a mail coach with horses stuck in a snowdrift on a winter road, with travelers and snowy trees.

Optical TOy: "The London Mail Obstructed by a Snowdrift" (Spooner's Protean Views, no. 16)

England William Spooner, 1830

Etching of a rooster on a pedestal, a ladder, a wooden cross with thorns and cloth, and the words VIA CRUCIS on a wall.

Frontispiece of the Via crucis (Stations of the Cross)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Etching of Trinity Church spire at the end of a crowded Wall Street lined with tall stone buildings and pedestrians.

Trinity Church from Wall Street

Vaughan Trowbridge, 1910

Etching of Christ falling under the cross beside Roman soldiers and a crowd, with a classical arch behind, labeled Stazione I

Via crucis - Station III, He Falls Beneath the Cross the First Time

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1730

Engraved plate of a rococo fireplace design with mirror, tapestry panels and hearth plan below.

Plate 4, Decoration de Cheminée pour un grand Apartement

Jacques-François Blondel, 1710

Colored print of a Antwerp fish market with woven baskets, a Madonna statue on a stone pillar, and women in red skirts.

Fish Market, Antwerp

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1830

Hand-colored peep-show print of Somerset House and St Mary's Church in the Strand, with carriages and pedestrians on the stre

Peep-show, Vue de la Maison Royale de Somerset Avec l'Eglise de St. Marie Dans le Strand à Londres (A View of Somsers…

de Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, 1740

Engraving of a reclining winged male figure on a rock beside foliage and an ornate scroll, on a cream sheet.

The Letter S

Giovanni Battista Betti, 1770

Woodcut of a knight on a rearing horse lancing a dragon, with skulls and bones on the ground.

St. George Killing the Dr

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etching of Westminster showing Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament across the Thames, with boats on the water.

Westminster

Joseph Pennell, 1890

Engraving of a barefoot shepherdess holding a spindle beside a tree, with a seated boy and sheep and lambs nearby.

La Bergere Laborieuse

Jean Michel Liotard, 1750

Engraving of Christ's body being lowered from the cross by men on ladders while mourners gather below.

Descent from the Cross

G.L.D, 1590

Engraved page of three vertical rococo ornament designs: a candelabra, a figural pilaster with shield, and a scrolled support

Page Five from "Quatrieme Livre Contenant Des Montans où Pilastres Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Architecte du Roi et G…

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1770

Etching of fishermen's huts and a sailboat on a shore with distant hills and a cloudy sky.

Cabane De Pecheurs (Cotes de l'Italie)

Adolphe Appian, 1870

Engraving of nude Hercules raising a club over the fallen fire-breathing Cacus beside rocks, with a cow head peeking out.

Hercules and Cacus

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of a violent cavalry battle with rearing horses, armored riders with raised sabers, and a fallen soldier with a shi

The Battle of Anghieri

Flemish Gerard Edelinck, 1680

Engraving of a chaotic battle with armored riders, rearing horses, fallen soldiers, and a rocky landscape behind them.

Print - Marco Dente, 1520

Marco Dente, 1520

Engraving of the Holy Family with a seated Virgin, infant Christ, reading Joseph, palm tree and classical building in a lands

Holy Family

Guillaume Château, 1650

Engraved portrait of a young woman in a striped head wrap, looking over her shoulder, with Latin caption and coat of arms bel

Portrait of Beatrice Cenci

Pietro Bettelini, 1800

Engraving of a mounted soldier with helmet and musket on a white horse, a second rider behind him, camp figures in the backgr

Suite of Cavalry Officers: Soldiers

Georg Philip Rugendas, 1720

Lithograph of a ragged man walking with a thin dog on a rope, from Daumier's Histoire Ancienne, plate 7.

Le Retour d'Ulysse, plate 7 from the Histoire Ancienne

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Engraved view of Hampton Court from the Thames, with a wooden bridge, palace buildings, boats and figures on the bank.

View of Hampton Court from the Thames River, from Walter Harrison's History of London

John Cooke, 1740

Black and white plate of neoclassical friezes with swans, urns, scrolls, rosettes and fluted columns, labeled Pl. 3.

Frieze and Ornamental Bor

Gottfried Engelmann, 1820

Etching of horse-drawn cabs waiting on a rainy city street beside tall buildings, with pedestrians under umbrellas and lamp p

The cab stand

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1870